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Curiculum Vitae CURICULUM VITAE Vesna A. Wallace University of California Department of Religious Studies HSSB, 3rd floor Santa Barbara, CA 93105 E-mail: [email protected] EDUCATION Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (Department of South and Southeast Studies), 1995 M.A., University of Washington, Seattle (Department of Asian Languages and Literature), 1988 B.A., University of Zagreb, Croatia (Department of Indology and Department of Comparative Literature), 1979 Postdoctoral Study, Pedagogical State University (Mongolian Language Department, Ulaanbaatar), 2000 ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008- present Professor, Yehan Numata Chair in Buddhist Studies. Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, 2008 – 2010 Academic Director. Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies (OCBS), Oxford, 2008-2010 2 International Ph.D. Supervisor. Open Society Institute, Higher Education Support Program, Central Asia Training and Research Initiative, 2008-present Associate Professor. Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005-2008 Assistant Professor. Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2001-2005 Lecturer. Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1997- 2001 Visiting Scholar. Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, 1996- Spring Quarter, 1997 Research Fellow. Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Summer Term, 1996 Research Fellow. Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1995-1996 Visiting Lecturer. Department of Linguistics: Special Language Program, Stanford University, Stanford, 1993-1995 Teaching Assistant. Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, 1992- 1996 Visiting Lecturer. Innovative Academic Courses, Program in Special Undergraduate Education. Stanford University, Stanford, Winter Quarter, 1991 Teaching Assistant. Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1990 Instructor. University Extension, University of Washington, Seattle, 1987-1988 3 SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS BOOKS The K›lacakratantra: The Chapter on S›dhana together with the Vimalaprabh›. Tanjur Translation Initiative, Treasury of Buddhist Sciences Series. New York: American Institute of Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, co-published with the Columbia University’s Center for Buddhist Studies and Tibet House. 2010. (Annotated translation from Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Mongolian, together with a critical edition of the Mongolian text.) The K›lacakratantra: The Chapter on the Individual together with the Vimalaprabh›. Tanjur Translation Initiative, Treasury of Buddhist Sciences Series. New York: American Institute of Buddhist Studies, co-published with the Columbia University’s Center for Buddhist Studies and Tibet House, 2004. (Annotated translation from Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Mongolian, together with a critical edition of the Mongolian text.) The Inner K›lacakratantra: A Buddhist Tantric View of the Individual. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life. Bodhic›ry›vat›ra. Translated from Sanskrit and Tibetan by Vesna A. Wallace and B. Alan Wallace. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1997. A Textbook for the First Year Intensive Serbo-Croatian. Co-author. Washington DC, State Department, 1988. BOOK CHAPTERS “The Legalized Violence:” Punitive Measures of Buddhist Khans in Mongolia.” In Buddhist Warfare. Edited by Mark Juergensmeyer and Michael Jerryson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. “Texts as Deities: Mongols’ Rituals of Worshipping SÒtras and Rituals of Accomplishing Various Goals by Means of SÒtras.” In Ritual in Tibetan Buddhism. Edited by José I. Cabezón. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. “The Body as a Text and the Text as the Body: A View from the K›lacakratantra’s Perspective.” In As Long as Space Endures: Essays on the K›lacakra Tantra in Honor of H. H. The Dalai Lama. Edited by Edward A. Arnold. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2009. 4 “Medicine and Astrology in the Healing Arts of the K›lacakratantra.” In As Long as Space Endures: Essays on the K›lacakra Tantra in Honor of H. H. The Dalai Lama. Edited by Edward A. Arnold. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2009. “Diverse Aspects of the Mongolian Buddhist Manuscript Culture and Realms of Its Influence.” In Buddhist Manuscript Culture: Knowledge, Ritual, and Art. Edited by Steven Berkwitz, Juliane Schober, and Claudia Brown. London: Routledge, 2008. “A Convergence of Medical and Astro-Sciences in Indian Tantric Buddhism: A Case of the K›lacakratantra.” In Astro-Medicine: Astrology and Medicine, East and West. Micrologus’ Library, 25. Edited by Anna Akasoy, Charles Burnett and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim. Florence, Italy: Sismel Edzioni del Galluzzo, 2008. “A Generation of Power Through Ritual Protection and Transformation of Identity in Indian Tantric Buddhism.” In Asian Ritual Systems: Syncretisms and Ruptures. Edited by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathen. Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2007. (The paper was previously published in the Journal of Ritual Studies) "The Methodological Relevance of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship to the Study of Buddhism." In Buddhist Theology: Critical Reflections of Contemporary Buddhist Scholars. Edited by John Makransky and Roger Jackson. London: Curzon Press, 1999. "Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Perspective on the Treatment of Mentally Retarded Children in Latin America." In Ethics and World Religions: Cross-cultural Case Studies, ed. by Regina, Wentzel, Wolfe and Christine E. Gudorf. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1999. JOURNAL AND ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES “Why is the Bodiless (anaºga) Gnostic Body (jñ›na-k›ya) Considered a Body?” Journal of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 37, No. 1, February 2009: 45-60. “Mediating the Power of Dharma: The Mongols’ Approaches to Reviving Buddhism in Mongolia.” The Silk Road Journal, No. 6/1, (2008): 36-45, 2008. “The Provocative Character of the ‘Mystical’ Discourses on the Absolute Body in Indian Tantric, Buddhism. Pacific World: Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies, Third Series, Number 6, Fall 2004, issued in 2006: 245-57. “A Generation of Power Through Ritual Protection and Transformation of Identity in 5 Indian Tantric Buddhism.” Journal of Ritual Studies, Special Issue on “Ritual and the Ritual Expression of Identity in Asia,” Vol. 19, Number 1, 2005: 115-28. “K›lacakra.” In Encyclopedia of Religion, Second Edition, Vol. 8. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2005: 5056-5059. "The Buddhist Tantric Medicine in the K›lacakratantra,." The Pacific World: Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies, New Series, Nos. 11-12 (1995): 155-74,1995. BOOK REVIEWS “Brian Bauman. Divine Knowledge: Buddhist Mathematics According to the Anonymous Manual of Mongolian Astrology and Divination. Leiden: Brill, 2008.” In Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 69, Issue 01, Feb., 2010: 244-245. “Eva Jane Neumann Friedman, Sacred Geography: Shamanism Among the Buddhist Peoples of Russia. Bibliotheca Shamanistica, vol. 12. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2004.” In Religion, Vol. 36, Issue 1, 2006. “Walther Heissig and Klaus Sagaster, eds. Gedanke und Wirkung. Festschrift für Nikolaus Poppe zum 90. Geburtstag Asiatische Forschungen: Monographienreihe Zur Geschichte, Kultur und Sprache der Völker Ost-und Zentralasiens, Band 108.” Wiesbadden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1989. In Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 50(1), 1992, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan. INSTRUCTIONAL AND DOCUMENTARY FILMS “Revival of Buddhism in Mongolia: Part 1 & Part 2.” Santa Barbara: Erdene Productions, 2004 (Executive Producer, Researcher, and Narrative Writer). “Shaman in the City: Ulaanbaatar, Outer Mongolia.” Santa Barbara: Erdene Productions, 2003 (Executive Producer, Researcher, and Narrative Writer). “Revival of the Traditional Mongolian Culture.” Santa Barbara: Erdene Productions, 2004 (Executive Producer, Researcher, and Narrative Writer). 6 OXFORD BIBLIOGRAPHY ONLINE “K›lacakra.” In Oxford Bibliographies Online, 2010. http://www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com/display/id/obo-9780195393521-0083 “Buddhism in Mongolia.” In Oxford Bibliographies Online, 2010. http://www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com/display/id/obo-9780195393521-0111 “Astronomy, Cosmology, and Astrology.” In Oxford Bibliographies Online, 2010. http://www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com/display/id/obo-9780195393521-0019 WORK IN PRESS “How Vajrap›˚i became a Mongol: A Case Study of the Acculturation of Buddhism in Mongolia.” In Tantric Traditions on the Move: Their Development through Time, and Transmission through Cultural Space. Edited by David Gray. New York: Oxford University Press. (book chapter) “The Six-phased Yoga of the Abbreviated Wheel of Time Tantra (Laghuk›lacakratantra) According to Vajrap›˚i.” In Yoga in Practice. Edited by David Gordon White. Princeton: Princeton University Press. “Buddhist Laws in Mongolia.” In Buddhism and Law. Edited by Rebecca French. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. “Rendering Buddhism into Mongolian Language: Mongols’ Translation Methods of Buddhist Texts.” In Festschrift to Robert A. F. Thurman in Honor of the Seventieth Birthday. Edited by Christian, K. Wedemeyer, John D. Dunne, and Thomas F. Yarnall. New York: American Institute of Buddhist Studies and Columbia University Press. “The Method-and-Wisdom Model in Theoretical Syncretism of the Traditional Mongolian Medicine.” Journal of the Center for Medicine and
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